Helaine Olen interviews Johanna Neuman, author of Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote. The life and death of a radical sisterhood: Fifty years ago, a group of women convened in New York with one clear goal — dismantle the patriarchy; their struggle feels all too contemporary. The growing partisan divide over feminism: Democratic men are 31 points more likely to say that the “country has not gone far enough on women’s rights” than Republican women. The complexity of feminism in the age of Trump: Sean Illing interviews Samhita Mukhopadhyay, co-editor of Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America (and more).

From Boston Review, militarizing the presidency: Andrew Lanham reviewsWaging War: The Clash Between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS by David J. Barron; Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War by Mark Danner; and How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon by Rosa Brooks. The origin of endless war: Richard Beck on Barbara Lee and the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force. How worried should we be about the military’s takeover of American foreign policy? Trump’s recklessness is magnifying the military’s political power — and independence: “The military is restraining the civilian leadership rather than the other way around.”